Frugal install of Racy 5.3.90. Like Precise, Racy has the "mostly black
screen" bug. Since the toolbar is there, you can do Menu - Shutdown -
Restart x server to get a desktop. Test machines here are all older P4
cpu, RAM from 512 to 768 meg. The black screen bug seems unrelated
to any particular video hardware. Black screens occur randomly at
startup.

Racy tends to connect (wireless) on the first try, stay connected and
start up connected thereafter. My machines use rt2500pci (Linksys PCI
adapter).

Racy works on a machine here that Precise doesn't work on at all (hangs
during startup).

So Racy is less buggy on my machines than Precise, for whatever that
comparision is worth.

I was able to use PupClockset-1.9.2.pet on Racy as I did on Precise. IMO,
it would make for a nicer OS if the 12 hour clock option was available
out of the box.

5.3.92 (and in fact 5.3 and 5.2.2) I get no ethernet connection on my Dell Vostro desktop.

Hardinfo shows the Ethernet controller as:-

Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

This is quite a recent machine so you would tend not to use Wary on it. Other Puppies (including Racy 5.3) are all OK, they connect automatically. Not sure if it is possible or necessary to address this but thought I would mention it._________________Oscar in England

Nice! Got video, sound, connection(wired) even Flash ootb. None of the features of the earlier release. This desktop/theme & co is entirely acceptable as opening gambit.
Until 5.3.9.0, this had been my workhorse for testing across a wide spectrum. Universal applicability is extremely valuable in the testing lab. - never know what HW will arrive!
Quick rhs click on Sr0 causes it to disappear, has to be re-mounted to get 'eject' - this has been fixed in most (all?) more recent Puppies and was subject of discussion sometime ago.

Testing Wary 5.3.92 on a Dell Dimension 4600 desktop, Pentium 4 runs at 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM. This one has an nVidia NV 34 [GeForce 5200] graphics card. The Xorg nv driver loads from probe and works OK booting from live CD.

No problems so far except I am really not sure about this older Seamonkey version if I may be so bold as to say so. Some pages are not rendering very well. How can I upgrade Adblock or the definitions at least? Some stuff gets through or messes up the page layout with empty frames or whatever they are.

Will test on some other machines later.

LATER:-

Are the symlinks definitely all present and correct from /usr/lib to /usr/X11R7/lib and also (with devx loaded) from /usr/include to /usr/X11R7/include?

I find I get dizzy looking at those paths with sub-directories also named X11.

Also, there seem to be 2 versions of libvpx in /usr/lib and I was wondering if we need them both.

I was experimenting with compiling Linphone which in Wary 5.3 gave an error asking for X11 and xv headers to be installed.

I managed to compile it with video enabled in Wary 5.3.92 but I am not sure if something has been changed since 5.3
I did add some symlinks as mentioned above but also added some LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to /usr/X11R7/lib and /usr/X11R7/include respectively when compiling this time, but now I don't know which of those steps (if any) cured the problem.

If I install the 5.3.92 Linphone in Wary 5.3 it won't run because the needed libvpx.so.1 is not found.

LATER STILL:-

Going back to Wary 5.3 I find that setting the X11R7 FLAGS resolves the original compile problem so I can build with video enabled in that now, but the 2 versions of libvpx.so (0.9.7 and 1.1.0) in 5.4 beta means that Linphone built in 5.3 runs in 5.4 beta but not the other way round unless I create a symlink to libvpx.so.0.9.7 named libvpx.so.1 in 5.3_________________Oscar in England

Testing wary 5.3.92 on a desktop Amd Sempron with 512 Mb Ram. I have been enjoing the stability and the fastness of wary 5.3 on my hardware even if I have had some renounces.
I have experienced a better tune of pupx in wary 5.3.92: with my keyboard I have not to disable the repeat of keystroke as in wary 5.3 but the tuning can be done better.
I have experienced improved gtk in version 5.3.92: now firefox 3.6.28 works without possible reverting to gtk of puppy4 and adjiusting Partview and Gparted from puppy4 and some symbolic links (if one want to use firefox 3.6.28 for moonlight plugin).
Instead peazip4.8Gtk is still not working: it starts but I have to kill the process to exit the program. In wary 5.3 I have been using qt version and so It can be do in wary 5.3.92 with qt version 4.7.1 saved from the expired repository of puppeee (I did not try the version 4.7.3 from the noarch repository not working in wary 5.3 for peazipQt).
I tried to install skype-4.0.0.8 but I was not able to do this without errors in unpacking the static version. I have still used version 2.2.0.35, the same I am using in wary 5.3.
Installed working usb-modeswitch version 1.2.3 and v4l-utils version 0.8.5 by compiling them.
Installed working Libreoffice-3.6.4_xx_gz.sfs. (See:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65918&start=150)
I use to compile motion (videosurveillance) in my installations. In precise I find it in the repository of ubuntu. I ever found a version of motion (from Git, Snapshots...) working for the puppies I use. Sometime I experienced problems of compatibility of ffmpeg but I ever found the way out of the problem. With wary 5.3.92 motion is well compiled but there is a ffmpeg not working (no .avi file of recording). Trying to launch by command line:

In wary 5.3 I instead found a working version of motion without ffmpeg compatibility problems even if the ffmpeg version is perhaps the same.
In wary 5.3 I have been using an old version of google-talkplugin from slackware 13.37 repository. More recent versions don’t work. In wary 5.3.92 It seems the same (it depends on version of glibc used).
I think wary 5.3 will not be abandoned from me. I do not experience big improvements in wary 5.3.92.

UPDATE: I had success with my ffmpeg problem by installing from repository the versions ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet and ffmpeg_DEV-20111002-w5c.pet. Now all working in my installation but I'll mantain wary 5.3.

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